Contradictions of the Welfare State by Claus Offe

By Claus Offe

Claus Offe is among the prime social scientists operating in Germany this present day, and his paintings, quite at the welfare nation, has been significantly influential either in Europe and the USA. Contradictions of the Welfare kingdom is the 1st choice of Offe's essays to seem in one quantity in English, and it features a choice of his most vital contemporary paintings at the breakdown of the post-war cost. The political writings during this publication are essentially enthusiastic about the origins of the current difficulties—what Offe calls the 'crises of quandary management'—of welfare capitalist states. He exhibits why within the current interval, those states are not any longer able to totally handling the socio-political difficulties and conflicts generated through overdue capitalist societies and discusses the viability of latest correct, corporatist, and democratic socialist proposals for restructuring the welfare country. The ebook additionally bargains clean and penetrating insights right into a variety of different matters, together with social hobbies, political events, legislations, social coverage, and hard work markets. there's an interview with Claus Offe, ready in particular for this quantity, and a considerable introductory bankruptcy via John Keane which hyperlinks the essays and explores Offe's vital subject matters. This booklet is incorporated within the sequence reports in modern German Social notion, edited by way of Thomas McCarthy.

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